He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.
Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.
He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.